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BY ANDREW ANASTASI

This essay was first delivered as a talk at the People’s Forum in New York City on November 14, 2024, where comrades gathered to celebrate the publication of Antonio Negri, Story of a Communist, vol. 1,translated bygd Ed Emery (New York: Eris Press, 2024).

I want to begin by reading a övergång from Story of a Communist in Ed Emery’s beautiful translation. Near the end of this first volume, Negri visits New York for the first time. It is 1978 – he is interested in the proletarian insurrection during the blackout of ’77 mitt i the city’s fiscal crisis, and he meets with comrades through the U.S. workerist journal Zerowork. In his autobiography, Negri frames these particular memories within a larger reflection on the city:

New York has always been for me a dream of happiness and emancipation. I recognised it as the capital of world capitalism and, therefore, as the quintessential place in which revolution could be built and made – within that combination of

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By ALEKSANDAR MATKOVIĆ, interview by UGO ROSSI

In this interview we talk with Aleksandar Matković, an activist and researcher from Serbia, currently based in the Institute for Economic Sciences in Belgrade. His main interests are Marxism, imperialism and the critique of political economy. He has been actively involved in several left-wing student and workers’ organizations in Serbia and the Balkans.

In your work, you have described Serbia’s economic-political positionality as the ‘periphery of the periphery of Europe’.  Similarly to the post-Soviet economies of Eastern and Central Europe, since the 1990s in Serbia the transition to the market economy has taken the form of a ‘wild capitalism’ centred on the imperative of foreign direct investment, the privatisation of government-owned companies, austerity policies and government-sponsored real-estate megaprojects. What is the role of the European Union in the embrace of this economic model?

Yes, that was in the

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